Barbara Reynolds

Eva Mary Barbara Reynolds (13 June 1914 – 29 April 2015) was an English scholar of Italian Studies, lexicographer and translator.

[3] Reynolds was an Assistant Lecturer in Italian at the London School of Economics from 1937 to 1940.

[3] Its officers in recent years have regularly programmed events for 13 June, the common birthday of Sayers and Reynolds.

[3][6][7] Her major work is the Cambridge Italian Dictionary, of which she was the General Editor.

Reynolds afterwards translated Dante's La Vita Nuova and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso for the Penguin Classics.